Resources

SERC Resources.

Resources providing further information about subsurface energy, hydraulic fracturing and the Marcellus and Utica Shales.

SERC seeks to add to knowledge about the development of subsurface energy resources of all sorts, particularly in and around Ohio, as well as the environmental and public-health impacts of this development. To accomplish this objective, the center facilitates research, education and outreach, and exchanges of information carried out by multidisciplinary working groups consisting of OSU faculty members who have chosen to affiliate with SERC.

National Subsurface Energy Resources

U.S. EPA Hydraulic Fracturing

Website for hydraulic fracturing information, reports, and regulations from the U.S. EPA

The Subsurface Library

This large, privately held library has records from the Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin, records from the Texas Railroad Commission and the General Land Office, as well as privately and corporately collected data from the Permian Basin.

Marcellus Center for Outreach & Research

UCEAO - Shale Energy Working Group

The Shale Working Group of the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio is developing a set of guiding principles on shale gas exploration and extraction. These principles will direct the work of UCEAO in advocating for public policy, research, educational programming, and commercialization strategies.

Gas Drilling Impacts on Water Quality

The Impact of Marcellus Gas Drilling on Rural Drinking Water Supplies

A study by researchers at Penn State Univ. at the request of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, this research looked to provide an unbiased and large-scale study of water quality in private water wells in rural Pennsylvania before and after the drilling of nearby Marcel­lus Shale gas wells.

UT study: No direct fracking-water contamination link

Preliminary results of a University of Texas study on hydraulic fracturing indicate the process itself does not appear to contaminate drinking water, but that fracturing sites may have a higher incidence of surface problems that can occur with any type of drilling.

Shale Government/Industry Networks

ShaleNET

ShaleNET Talent Match is the result of a grant funded by the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Its mission is to design a comprehensive recruitment, training, placement, and retention program for high priority occupations in the natural gas drilling and production industry.

Ohio Shale Coalition

The Ohio Shale Coalition is a broad-based, statewide partnership for affordable energy and jobs. Its membership includes local chambers of commerce, businesses, development organizations and individuals whoe seek to maximize the jobs and economic potential of shale gas and affordable energy production in Ohio.

Jobs Ohio - Energy

Marcellus Shale Coalition

This industry coalition works with exploration and production, midstream, and supply chain partners in the Appalachian Basin and across the country to address issues regarding the production of clean, job-creating, American natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays.

Energy In Depth - The Ohio Project

EID’s Ohio project will seek to engage in and add something meaningful to that critical conversation, identifying and mobilizing as many friends as we can find along the way to stand up in support of a commonsense, homegrown energy strategy for Ohio.